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- Title
DeWitt Clinton Clarke: A Political Life in Antebellum Vermont.
- Authors
Sessions, Gene
- Abstract
A biography of U.S. newspaper editor and political activist DeWitt Clinton Clarke is presented. He was born on September 27, 1811, in Granville, Vermont. He studied law, married Caroline "Caro" Gardner in May 1832, and established a law practice in Troy, New York. He moved to Vermont and became active in Whig Party activities there and served as secretary of the Vermont senate and Vermont quartermaster general. He owned and edited the Burlington, Vermont newspaper the "Free Press." He died on August 31, 1870.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CLARKE, DeWitt Clinton; NEWSPAPER editors; WHIG Party (U.S.); ACTIVISTS; JOURNALISTS; VERMONT state history; UNITED States history; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY of political parties
- Publication
Vermont History, 2013, Vol 81, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0042-4161
- Publication type
Biography